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2026-03-03 16:04:12 UTC

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@nprofile…xsag @nprofile…z9f3 this is funny but the principles underlying jsonld existed before jsonld

2026-03-03 16:00:02 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3 2 doesn't exist ontologically until you describe it. morals are much the same. if there were no persons in the universe then what morals exist? you introduce moral actors by ascribing moral properties to them, which require a context to be qualified
> i don't think the concept of the universe applying morality in the same way for all people is farfetched
what does the universe say morally about homosexuality or putting ice cream in your back pocket? who speaks for the universe?
i mean, when you fall off a cliff, you can reason about physics or gravity up until the point that you die. what does moral reasoning do in a universal sense? "civilization"? the morals of that civilization depend on the civilization's values. one civilization ends, another begins, there need not be moral continuity between the two

2026-03-03 14:31:02 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3 i was making a social media post not a formal philosophical argument but okay 😇
btw "2" is a symbol that can represent anything linguistically, and the concepts that it represents doesn't have a truth value either (unless you count "truthiness" coercion in dynamic languages, where 0 is "false"). this is likewise not objective because "2" has to be contextualized like any other symbol in a processing context. trinitarian christians might say "three is one" and take that to be a profound universal truth, but even if you agree in-context, you might disagree arithmetically. try making that statement in a programming language and you get "false".
mostly the thing i am commenting on is the idealism and also the strange coincidence that the universal ideal just so happens to align with whoever is stating it. it's not me saying this, it's the universe which is objectively true and agrees with me and is my friend. i can't take responsibility for any of my beliefs or statements because i am only describing a universal truth. i'm just a messenger, i don't make the rules, etc.

2026-03-03 06:54:27 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3 maybe this is just the classical moral objectivist vs relativist argument but if you're a relativist the idea that morals are objective is already something you disagree with, and the idea that morals have a truth value is likewise inconsistent
being a relativist doesn't justify immoral actions, it just attributes them to something other than the universe. morals are ideals that require some kind of application to be effective. the very fact that people *can* disagree on what is moral is enough to disprove the idea that they are universal (if they were truly universal they would be self-evident and not require agreement)
this isn't even a marxist thing imo, it's just the realization that you aren't the universe (because it's pretty curious how the objective moral truth just so happens to be the thing i agree with)

2026-03-03 04:34:07 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3 i get that the bottom text is theoryslop but i was more commenting about the absurdity of the top text

2026-03-03 01:54:34 UTC

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@nprofile…z9f3
> objectively morally false
:lain_confused:

2026-02-27 03:49:52 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag i'm talking about people you know personally, too

2026-02-27 03:48:49 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag which platform

2026-02-27 03:48:03 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag they already have, haven't they?

2026-02-20 19:41:00 UTC

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@nprofile…8wj7 the great perl revival vs the gopocalypse

2026-02-12 21:00:04 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag they are both guys, one guy is roleplaying as a nazi but is actually a nazi and is asking the other guy to roleplay being black (the other guy is not black)

2026-02-12 20:58:35 UTC

if you do nazi roleplay in the bedroom but you're an actual nazi, is it still roleplay

2026-02-12 20:52:07 UTC

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@nprofile…nptm @nprofile…s2sp do you mean "you" as in me personally or "you" as in some generalized sense? would me personally dropping swicg help anything, now or in 2023? because i'd probably do it if i didn't see a point to it, which is mainly "get the w3c specs into an actually usable state" (if at all possible).
i guess it seems like a problem if you see w3c involvement as a problem, but then i would ask who the constituents are. certainly there was a crowd in ~2017 onward who *really* wanted everyone to know activitypub was a w3c spec and won't stop talking about it to this day. i'm guessing you are okay with excluding those people, but then i wonder how to get anyone else actually on board with whatever it is the goal actually is.
having clear goals and a clear constituency is a prerequisite imo for any attempt to replace activitypub. for example, the spritely institute is doing a lot of work on ocapn in the face of legal threats. off the top of my head i can think of maybe a handful of people who would be interested in doing something outside of activitypub (and i'm in contact with a lot of them lmao)
i don't want to say activitypub is fully sucking the air out of the room but as someone who would rather work toward personal websites and local-first representations, it's frustrating that the idea of an activity is ostensibly described by activitystreams while not being fully usable for describing activity streams. it's frustrating that activitypub is not fully usable for publishing activities. i am not entirely sure of the value of making my own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_vocabulary if it's going to end up 80% similar to activitystreams. the as2 documents i publish on my website are not readable by any fediverse software anyway, and i'm not sure i would want them to be, if it leads to being misunderstood and mangled that badly.

2026-02-12 18:43:00 UTC

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@nprofile…nptm @nprofile…s2sp w3c has a real problem with over-reliance on github in general
i think swicg might have been actually renamed to social web cg at some point or social cg but the github org and w3c mailing list / calendar doesn't reflect this at all in their uris because uris aren't supposed to change
re: "we have federated groups": no, we have boost bots. you can't follow a group without being assumed to be a member, and you can't be a member while unfollowing the group. you can't assign roles to people. you can't do rbac without some binary concept of "mods" or "admins" without a definition of what that actually means. you can't generally control groups cross-instance. you can't manually approve certain posts. etc
re: "legitimize" we are in an unfortunate position that the main reason pretty much anyone ever cared about activitypub is that "it's a w3c spec". they don't even care about the spec mostly (how many implementations publish Activity instead of Note?), just the w3c rubberstamp of approval. and it's barely a spec anyway -- just profiles ldp:inbox, defines as:outbox, you can maybe Follow/Like/Announce and even then you will still have problems (no in-spec way to remove a follower...)

2026-02-02 06:30:22 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag yes although i think many relay softwares support both. have a look at https://w3id.org/fep/ae0c for a writeup

2026-02-02 06:26:26 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag if they're running pleroma you can just follow internal.relay or relay or whatever the username is (assuming it's enabled in settings by the admin)
otherwise there's mastodon-style relays and pleroma-style relays which you can send posts to

2026-02-02 06:24:27 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag wdym "firehose", like a relay?

2026-01-21 21:48:16 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag @nprofile…ehgy @nprofile…5vpa @nprofile…23w6 you're welcome

2026-01-21 06:48:56 UTC

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@nprofile…tsag "manufacturing consent of the governed" makes you a bad dictator actually. the best dictators alive don't bother with elections.

2025-12-19 15:45:56 UTC

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@nprofile…waf0 @nprofile…pvqa having to look through an indeterminate number of domain names to then look through an indeterminate number of accounts to then look through an indeterminate number of posts before i decide i want to follow someone? yeah that's definitely doable, what's that, only cubic complexity?
even then, syncing all posts and relaying new ones works fine if you care about literally everything. at that point just use bluesky lmao. if you prefer to build relationships between people, instead of between instances, then instance peers is not a good entrypoint. and if you ever want to go beyond instances to p2p (which you should if you care about censorship) then this won't work at all.

2025-12-10 22:56:45 UTC

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@nprofile…rt7m @nprofile…rrun gee i sure wish borders weren't a thing so people actually *could* leave

2025-11-26 23:23:34 UTC

four or five toddlers of various races behind me communicating exclusively in "six seveeen". looks like we ended racism but traded it in for brainrot

2025-11-25 05:48:03 UTC

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@nprofile…2wy3 whenever i see articles like this i always wonder wtf they think the "economy" is, and why they think when people don't buy things the economy suffers, instead of the other way around (when the economy suffers, people don't buy things)

2025-11-03 01:06:14 UTC

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@nprofile…pvqa as opposed to christianity being fine but christians being shit?

2025-08-28 13:11:57 UTC

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@nprofile…5f97 @nprofile…myxu she broke hers and had to go to the hospital, it was a whole incident

2025-08-12 13:58:51 UTC

honestly when it comes to ap there's like Levels of how far you can go
level 1: ap is mastodon protocol
level 2: i will do real ap according to the spec
level 3: we need to architect a new setup that fixes ap's mistakes
level 4: just use http directly and don't reinvent wheels
level 5: fuck it we ball use whatever exists natural language is enough

2025-08-12 13:34:15 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…vrgz ah. i can't speak to whether "her colleagues" is a fair assessment or whatever makes her "happy" but that is certainly a different argument (if a bit weaker). essentially are you saying that by critiquing something you are inherently making it easier to take action against it? this to me reads kinda like how some vanguardists view all critique of the party line as counterrevolutionary because reactionary elements will capitalize on any sign of weakness. i don't agree much with that so idk if i can reasonably conclude anything significant regarding her role in the recent bans. it sorta seems like different groups that maybe incidentally aligned at some point? at least from what i know of the advocacy group that's been hounding visa and mastercard

2025-08-12 13:28:01 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…vrgz i don't particularly have an opinion about her takes specifically but it seems like the right move is to just ignore and get better sources. it's not like she has actual power does she? at most it's kinda prototypical dumb culture war bullshit rehashed from a decade ago
either way i still think being against something doesn't/shouldn't mean you automatically support banning it. maybe the messaging is inconsistent over time or maybe views change (i'm certainly not keeping up lol) but as far as i'm aware i haven't seen any call to ban specific portrayals in games coming from her so this isn't a big "gotcha" moment to me. it's why i cited the voltaire mindset that liberals typically have bc it's what it boils down to

2025-08-12 12:49:32 UTC

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@nprofile…vrgz if you take it that way then this just seems like typical voltaireism "i don't like it but i will allow it" as in the games shouldn't be made that way but you should still be able to buy them. but i also think the critiques were about a different type of thing, it's not fair to remove all nuance and characterize it only as "sex bad" because sex and sexualization aren't the same thing. if you play a sex game you know what you're getting into. but it is notable how mainstream culture pushes certain images, like how basically every movie ever shoehorns in a kiss scene at the end for ultimately gratuitous reasons, it's an extremely common trope that Guy Gets Girl, it all feels so artificial and i generally find it cringe. i also don't personally care about this specific person in any way but it feels like people love to hate her regardless of what she actually said or didn't say

2025-07-23 02:58:37 UTC

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@nprofile…66ct @nprofile…xfx6 well take it up with the WHO i guess, the PHEIC is their designation and they lifted it from covid-19 in 2023 🙃

2025-07-23 01:52:12 UTC

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@nprofile…xfx6 epidemiology is about the spread of diseases, not the severity. it's still a pandemic (occurring around the world), it's just not a public health emergency of international concern (not requiring serious international coordination) anymore

2025-07-02 20:38:05 UTC

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@nprofile…myxu @nprofile…ahjz @nprofile…37fd unironically the razer seiren mini is too good at its price point... usually $50, currently $37 https://amzn.to/46ayNDJ and even outperforms razer's more expensive offerings. for the under-$60 price bracket it's pretty much the only pick worth comsidering except for the fifine k669b which is almost as good but cheaper... usually $30, currently $24 https://amzn.to/4ex7rJL
you probably want a boom arm to get the microphone closer to your mouth, which makes it pick up less room noise due to lower sensitivity needed, and also tends to make voices sound fuller due to the proximity effect. avoid the cheaper crappier scissor-arm ones that go for like $20 unless you are extremely budget constrained. good mic arms start at around $50 or $60 but you might be able to find a deal as low as $40. yes this makes the mounting more expensive than the actual microphone lol, but it's worth it to get the mic off the desk and therefore less prone to desk vibrations (and as stated before, closed to your mouth)

2025-06-23 21:05:38 UTC

gatekeeping the boob fandom

2025-06-21 22:45:22 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 this is the only significant change i'm aware of
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34910
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/35029
this is what it used to look like:
- https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19571
basically the fixed sidebar became a hamburger menu on mobile

2025-06-21 22:39:56 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 what ui change? the new menu?

2025-06-11 22:23:34 UTC

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…ms9m @nprofile…ycw3 pencils can be used to stab people, that’s a security vulnerability

2025-06-11 21:12:35 UTC

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@nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…h6f2 both are true
- pro israel has a subset where people basically want to expel jews out of their countries, it's a sort of "anywhere but here" mentality
- pro jew is a bit more obvious because there are diaspora jews and people who believe that jews should be safe in any land, and they don't like that a state claims to represent them while committing atrocities in their name

2025-06-11 21:10:35 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 i'm not sure i particularly know enough or care about the linux drama, i was just replying to your post about being anti israel :cirno_shrug:

2025-06-11 21:07:13 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 hasn't gnome been trying to drop x11 support for a lot lot lot longer than the xlibre thing has been going on?

2025-06-11 21:02:52 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 idk i think it's just as likely that the author genuinely believes this and wrote it primarily to express their viewpoint and not as some kind of own
there's an interesting question there of what you would think the primary audience is intended to be. i don't think gnome blog updates are written for a primarily chud audience, or even nominally in part. nonetheless i'm sure that some people are going to get upset at anything because of course they will. probably even a sizable subset of "low-information liberals" are gonna be miffed bc liberals tend not to support palestine

2025-06-11 20:57:12 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 anti israel doesn't imply pro palestine, and pro israel doesn't imply pro jew

2025-06-02 09:57:35 UTC

> Ainu babies traditionally are not given permanent names when they are born. Rather, they are called by various temporary names until the age of two or three. Newborn babies are named ayay ("a baby's crying"), shipo, poyshi ("small excrement"), and shion ("old excrement"). Their tentative names have a portion meaning "excrement" or "old things" to ward off the demon of ill-health.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people#Culture
imagine canonically being called "lil shit"

2025-05-08 16:00:33 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 the criticism is that his money alone isn’t enough and his money alone will run out eventually. he wants it to be an ongoing priority for international support

2025-04-20 04:15:18 UTC

https://fedi.layer02.net/media/66f899785d7834d7305b6aa56f0eb56aff0c82be6b8a4e82acd25757adeb237f.png

2025-04-18 20:45:16 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…vrgz i have a keychron q0 and i wish i had any way of knowing to wait for the q0 plus which is just better in every way

2025-04-16 18:20:42 UTC

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@nprofile…zn5x @nprofile…gen3 what's the lore here, where did "katherine" come from

2025-04-15 14:16:56 UTC

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@nprofile…zn5x "hey, do you have [insert preferred chat app here]? you [seem cool | are cool], i'd like to talk (for a week, get depressed from an outside life reason, forget to message you, and you end up hating me)"

2025-04-04 19:00:03 UTC

minecraft mod for adding quail

2025-03-25 17:02:39 UTC

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@nprofile…zn5x better or worse than mutant standard

2025-03-18 20:16:27 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 what kind of symptoms

2025-03-07 18:30:44 UTC

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@nprofile…zn5x depends if other people are gonna play? last time you did one i feel like there were maybe 2-4 people on at various times, and i wouldn't mind playing the same world either, but just playing what is basically single-player is not very motivating

2025-03-04 23:39:56 UTC

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@nprofile…xfx6 back in 2016/2017 i had just under 500 followers and would get 200k views a month. then i hit 500 and got shadowbanned and my views dropped to 40k/month. i couldn't see my own posts in threads, it was that bad. but i could still see the proud self-avowed nazis in my mentions telling me to get in ovens and sending me sieg heil gifs etc... so i deleted twitter and went all-in on fedi because of that.
if i had to guess, i would say that twitter's shadowbanning code back then would only trigger once an account hit 500 followers exactly, and then it would check how many blocks targeted them, and then it would shadowban accounts over a certain threshold. i was on the wil wheaton blocklist because one time sady doyle accidentally hit cmd+s on a tweet and was scared her mac had gotten hacked and randi harper told her to take it to a genius bar to get formatted and i had the audacity to point out that there was nothing to worry about because it was just a saved webpage. randi harper flipped out on me and added me to her personal blocklist which she also advertised as "99% mras and gaters" and was imported by wil wheaton and prominently featured in wil wheaton's pinned post for years. then i hit 500 followers and boom.

2025-03-04 19:07:34 UTC

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/03/03/popular-online-streamer-amouranth-held-at-gunpoint-for-crypto-pistol-whipped-in-houston-home-invasion/

2025-03-02 15:49:01 UTC

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@nprofile…hmru you mean to tell me that kotaku published something inaccurate? wow, i would never expect that from noted reliable source kotaku

2025-02-27 22:46:30 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 "not a coincidence" in what way

2025-02-27 21:40:29 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 idk why i'm replying bc i don't particularly care about this at all, but:
- this is an equivocation of the word "defended". a lawyer "defending" a client on legal grounds does not imply "defending" the client in any other way.
- nor does a defense imply approval or endorsement.
- nor does the context of being a lawyer imply anything on a personal level.

2025-02-26 19:08:26 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 do you need seo help or something

2025-02-17 17:25:38 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 i use "propaganda" in a positive context a lot, which is funny because people have a very negative connotation of the word

2025-02-17 17:14:30 UTC

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@nprofile…58xm @nprofile…h6f2 the leftist view on propaganda is that propaganda is anything that promotes a viewpoint. so the previous sentence is propaganda.
separately re: racism, there is a distinction between "racism" and "racial prejudice". the -ism denotes institutions and ideology.

2025-01-22 20:20:37 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…58xm at that point the two pleromae would not be using AP right? AP explicitly does actor-to-actor because they wanted to make it less work to port to p2p setups

2025-01-22 20:17:34 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…58xm federation isn’t between servers, it’s between actors. if you have m actors on one server and n actors on another server, you need to negotiate up to m*n connections in theory.
the way around this is to explicitly recognize servers by making them into actors which own everything, or otherwise add a mechanism for hierarchical ownership beyond 1 recursion level (Service owns Person, Person owns Note, only the Service can be communicated with)

2025-01-09 19:47:43 UTC

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@nprofile…66f2 @nprofile…9aux @nprofile…xyvy @nprofile…h6f2 this is basically websub (nee pubsubhubbub), you just need to extend the architecture to fan out each "pub" event to potential further downstreams (with deduplication along the way to prevent cyclic graphs)
a lot of what i'm researching rn is basically how to get information to flow across generic pluggable transports. websub is a transport in the same way that linked data notifications (ldn) is a transport (and activitypub is more or less a profile of ldn). you could pass the same information as an xmpp message. you could pass it via irc (although it would be basically spam to anyone who didn't understand how to parse it)
the patterns of communication and other fundamental building blocks are consistent even when you segregate the protocols themselves by further restrictions. look no further than protocols built on top of other protocols. we could pass plaintext messages over HTTP POST with Content-Type: text/plain. but instead we pass entire HTML documents or ActivityStreams documents or whatever. and those have to be unwrapped one or possibly multiple times -- take the HTTP message and unwrap it to get the Activity out of the body content. then see that the Activity is specifically a Create, so you have to unwrap that to get the object. Then you have to know to unwrap that object to get the content.
in generic terms the best way i can model this is that there is "content" and there is "metadata", and then the two are combined in a container of sorts which consists of "header" (for metadata) and "body" (for content). but we can then treat this entire container as itself body content inside *another* container. how many times you do this nesting is arbitrary but significant. with how most people just shove everything over HTTP these days, you will at minimum have to unwrap the HTTP message. why not just stop there? why not put metadata in HTTP headers? hey at least http sigs will actually mean something then lol

2025-01-09 18:32:28 UTC

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@nprofile…9aux @nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…xyvy weird that guppe groups never caught on. tbh you could make a basic group with the mastodon api by just reblogging any mention, isn’t that basically the same?
i am kinda having trouble remembering if there was more to gnu social groups. i remember they used bangtags but you try googling that shit now and there are basically zero live links to details about the old ways

2024-11-16 02:42:05 UTC

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@nprofile…h6f2 @nprofile…qmdf google+ may have "failed" but it was actually usable and did a lot of things correctly while it was around.
their primary fuckup was the #nymwars bullshit and probably also the forced integration with youtube. they should have not forced a real-name policy, and they should have allowed people to sign into youtube with google+ but maintained the distinction between a youtube channel and a google+ account
other than that, feature-wise it was unparalleled to this day